On 6/14/24 06:02, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 14/06/2024 01:23, Alfredo Jacobo wrote: >> Hello, I'd like a certain ping feature but it doesn't exist. >> >> So, I'm looking into contributing it. >> >> I hear this is the place to seek consensus? >> >> I'd submit it to gnu and call it gping. >> >> My new feature; wanted ping to never give the statistics at the end. >> >> Purpose is to make result output of batch pings to many machines less messy. > > There are already a couple of ping implementations, > so I doubt adding another would be appropriate in this case. > My Fedora system uses https://github.com/iputils/iputils > and there is also https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/ > So I would suggest trying to add the new feature to those.
And https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/ping.c and https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/net/ping.c and... Have you tried: $ ping -c 3 127.0.0.1 | grep 'bytes from' 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0 ms Rob
